I fear that battle is lost; as we can see with Apple's response to EU regulation, it'll be all malicious-compliance, and even without that, the sheer scale of t

I fear that battle is lost; as we can see with Apple's response to EU regulation, it'll be all malicious-compliance, and even without that, the sheer scale of the status-quo means the chances of any alternative gaining traction is all but lost. An alternative app store gripping the mass-market is unlikely; a new entrant into the Android-iOS duopoly is unlikely, Google/Apple actually giving a shit about the apps and developers making the software to rake in cash for them is _unlikely_. Having been in the mobile-app-development space since the beginning of Android and iOS, I've given up. I don't use my personal developer accounts any more, and I don't do "mobile" at work any more. I'm just too jaded to care how wrong it all now.